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    au·toch·tho·nous
    [ôˈtäkTHənəs, äˈtäkTHənəs]
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    autochthonous (adjective)
    1. (of an inhabitant of a place) indigenous rather than descended from migrants or colonists:
      "newly colonized islands hitherto inhabited by autochthonous people" · "roe deer of the eastern Italian Alps still represent the autochthonous Alpine populations"
      • biology
        indigenous to a particular environment, habitat, or geographical area.
    2. medicine
      (of a disease) originating in the geographical area where the patient lives; locally acquired:
      "substantial yearly increases of autochthonous infections were observed" · "764 of the new patients are autochthonous cases and eight were imported"
      • (of a pathological process or formation) remaining in or confined to its site of origin within the body:
        "autochthonous metastatic pancreas cancer"
    3. geology
      (of a deposit or formation) formed in its present position. Often contrasted with allochthonous
    Origin
    early 19th century: from auto- ‘self’ + Greek khthōn ‘earth’ + -ous.
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    adjective
    1. (of an inhabitant of a place) indigenous rather than descended from migrants or colonists:
      indigenous
      native
      first
      initial
      aboriginal
      ancient
      primeval
      primordial
      autochthonic
      Opposite:
      latest
      last
       
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      What is autochthonous adjective?Definition of autochthonous adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary (specialist) (of people who live in a particular place) whose ancestors all came from the same place synonym indigenous The Oxford Learner’s Thesaurus explains the difference between groups of similar words.

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      What is the meaning of allochthonous?Psychology of or pertaining to ideas that arise independently of the individual's own train of thought and seem instead to have some alien or external agency as their source. [ Geol.] (of rocks, minerals, etc.) formed in the region where found. Cf. allochthonous. Also, au•toch′tho•nal, au•toch•thon•ic (ô′tok thon′ ik).

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      What does autochthonous idea mean?Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free! The meaning of AUTOCHTHONOUS IDEA is a persistent, abnormally dominating idea that originates in the mind of a person and typically in the unconscious and that is thought by the person to have come from an outside, often malevolent, source.

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      autochthonous [ aw- tok-th uh-n uhs ] show ipa See synonyms for autochthonous on Thesaurus.com adjective Ecology. pertaining to autochthons; aboriginal; indigenous (opposed to heterochthonous).

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      adj. 1. Originating or formed in the place where found; indigenous: autochthonous rocks; an autochthonous people; autochthonous folk tales. See Synonyms at native. 2. Ecology Native to or produced within a system: an autochthonous species; algae that provide an autochthonous source of nutrients in a lake.

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